cinerary

• “The so-called cinerary urns are large vessels which have been usually discovered containing human bones; they have often been found inverted over cremated remains.”

  The Bronze Age in Ireland

• “Some of the objects were miniatures especially made for the funeral, and many were deliberately broken, with only a portion interred in the cinerary urns, with the rest perhaps kept as mementoes for the living, he added.”

  Anglo-Saxons honored their dead with mundane household objects

• “The walls contain only a few reused blocks (spolia) being mainly middle to late Hellenistic cinerary urns (osteothecae).”

  Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Domestic Area Report 3

• “Inside the dolium was a bronze cinerary urn containing the burnt bones wrapped in a linen cloth; silver items including a bowl and dragon fibula (garment pin); and small objects of ivory and amber.”

  Dig Like a Surgeon

• “It was discovered near Marlborough by Sir R.C. Hoare, and its contents proved it to be a cinerary urn of a date probably not much anterior to the Roman occupation of Britain.”

  Wanderings in Wessex An Exploration of the Southern Realm from Itchen to Otter

• “To the south-east of the camp, on a spur of the hill and in the direction of Preston, is a remarkable and extensive British cemetery, from which numbers of cinerary urns and other relics have been excavated.”

  Wanderings in Wessex An Exploration of the Southern Realm from Itchen to Otter

• “The pottery is all "hand-made," and the bulk of the objects excavated are cinerary urns, usually found full of burnt bones.”

  Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"

• “Bring me a cinerary urn," said he, and he walked forward to the dying embers.”

  The Martyr of the Catacombs A Tale of Ancient Rome

• “The fine sarcophagi now found in museums, or applied to all sorts of uses, as water-troughs, vases for flowers, and various other purposes, were all originally in tombs, and generally in tombs in which there were also _columbaria_ for cinerary urns.”

  Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life

• “Swan inn, was a Roman burial ground, and several cinerary urns and some coffins have been discovered there.”

  Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter

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